[85731] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Deploying 6to4 outbound routes at the border
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Sun Oct 16 16:49:02 2005
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:47:34 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Simon Leinen <simon@limmat.switch.ch>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <aad5m5h60u.fsf@diotima.switch.ch>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Simon Leinen wrote:
> Note that not all Cisco routers use process switching for 6to4 tunnel
> encap/decap (which is really just IPv6-in-IPv4). Catalyst 6500/7600
> OSR with PFC-3 (Sup32/Sup720) do this "in hardware".
And for dual-stack organizations using these at the borders, deploying a
local-only 6to4 outbound relay should be easy, right?
(The fact that transits should really be providing 6to4 to their downstreams
notwithstanding -- it would be faster at the org's border, but if transits
collectively offered 2002::/16 as standard practice, it may not be such a
big deal.)
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